National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Jason Aquino completed his first year as NFA head on January 11, 2018, his stewardship highlighted by major reforms and good housekeeping policies that tided the agency over in fulfilling its mandate of food security and stabilization despite the lowest buffer stock inventory the agency has ever handled in recent years.

National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Jason Aquino assured the public that the agency will continue to sell rice at the government prescribed price of P27/kilogram (kg) for the regular milled variety and P32/kg for the well-milled variety.

The National Food Authority (NFA) has issued a stern warning against individuals or entities using fake or fabricated rice Import Permits (IPs) following a report that some unscrupulous individuals or parties are selling spurious permits allegedly issued by NFA under the 2017 minimum access volume (MAV) private sector rice import scheme.

More than half of National Food Authority (NFA) employees will benefit from the implementation of Republic Act No. 10963, or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) which was signed into law on December 19, 2017 by President Rodrigo Duterte and will be implemented this year.

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About NFA

Today, the National Food Authority is vested the functions of ensuring the food security of the country and the stability of supply and price of the staple grain-rice. It performs these functions through various activities and strategies, which include procurement of paddy from individual bonafide farmers and their organizations, buffer stocking, processing activities, dispersal of paddy and milled rice to strategic locations and distribution of the staple grain to various marketing outlets at appropriate times of the year.